Local & General

Chronicle (Levin), 23 April 1949, Page 4

Local & General

j "Duck Shoving." | When a member of the Wanga- ! nui Education Board said at yesi terday's meeting that there had 5 been "a certain amount of duck ! shoving" in.> connection with' one i aspect of the matter under considI eration, his fellow members burst I into laughter. "Please, Mr. ChairI |man, what does 'duck shoving' | mean?" queried one member, while | another asked if he' were not at I a meeting of an education board. I New Catholic School. I Plans are being prepared for a i new Roman Catholic boys' school at I New Plymouth. The name of the I schooi, the Francis Douglas Memo- | rial College, is to commemorate l Father Douglas, who was killed by i the Japanese in the Philippines — | he was stationed in New Plymouth' | before he went -to the Philippines. ! A Francis Douglas memoriar fund I was formed in July, 1946, and I reached £20,000 in two years. It is 1 jhoped to open the school in 1950. I ( Cannibals? [ I Did cannibals once feast on the | property of 'Mr. E. A. Gillard, Sil- | iverdale Road, nead Hamilton? A [ Idog scratching in the light soil of | la bank on Monday. unearthed the j Jfirst of what the police later dis- [ covered to. be eight human skulls. ! A few more human bones were ffound nearby, but the absence of jother bones has caused the belief I that, the skulls were thrown into a j hole when eight bodies were prej !pared for a cannibal feast. j ! Building Site At Paraparaumu. j I Formal consent to the purchas'e ! | of property for a building site at | Paraparaumu by the Horowhenua j i Electric Power Board was received ! | from the Minister in Charge of the I j State Hydro-Electric Department | at a meeting of the board on Wednesday. The managing-secrelary, [Mr. R. A. Frederikson, remarked jthat the next step was to secure jthe land under the Public Works ;Act. The matter was at present in jthe hands of the board's solicitors. Dearer Than Golcl. The gift of flowers is generally regarded by the fairer sex as a jsupreme tribute (or in the"case of iwives, peshaps, the aeme of peacejofferings) . Few, however, would i realise the real worth -which couid [be placed on such a present. Should |the flowers be petunias the recipijent receives greater than golden (treasure. Petunia seed purchased jby a Hutt Valley nursery cost £95 jan ounce— ten times the price of jgold! From these seeds, whieh are 1 as fine as dust, careful tending [produces the blooms which are oflered by city florists.